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On August 11, in Acton, Massachusetts, Sudha and her 14-year-old son Siddharth were found murdered in their home. The 17-year-old son, Arvind, was missing initially but later found and arrested. Police discovered Arvind had been …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Family Homicide | Date: Aug. 11, 2026
View DetailsJeffrey C. MacDonald, a 36-year-old executive chef at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was charged with the murder of his wife, Emma MacDonald, 31, who was found dead from blunt-force trauma in a campus hotel …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: April 22, 2026
View DetailsOn January 30, 2026, Elizabeth Almeida and her son Nicholas Almeida were shot to death in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Arlington Cole III, who was in a dating relationship with Elizabeth Almeida, was …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Jan. 30, 2026
View DetailsEuridiana Ramirez Sanz, a 30-year-old healthcare worker, was shot and killed by her husband, Edgar Joel Torres, in a murder-suicide at their home in Lawrence, Massachusetts on January 2, 2026. The incident occurred while she …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder-Suicide | Date: Jan. 2, 2026
View DetailsGenesis Esperanza Solcio Marcia, a 25-year-old single mother in Guatemala, was found brutally murdered in her apartment with her head severed and heart removed. Her seven-month-old baby was found crying beside her body. The main …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: June 29, 2024
View DetailsAnna Walsh, a 39-year-old real estate agent and mother of three, disappeared on January 1, 2023, from her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Her husband, Brian Walsh, initially claimed she left early that morning for a …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Jan. 1, 2023
View DetailsChenghai Xue, a Chinese-American geneticist and AI expert, allegedly murdered his nephew Wankun Kahan in a public shooting outside a Massachusetts court in April 2022. The incident followed a complex family conflict involving infidelity, divorce, …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: April 7, 2022
View DetailsSandra Birchmore, a 23-year-old teaching assistant and former Police Explorer, was found dead in her apartment in Canton, Massachusetts, in February 2021. She had been in a coercive and abusive relationship with Matthew Farrell, a …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Feb. 1, 2021
View DetailsSandra Birchmore, a young woman from Massachusetts, was found dead in her apartment while three months pregnant. She had been in a nearly decade-long illegal relationship with police officer Matthew Favel, who allegedly abused his …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Feb. 1, 2021
View DetailsSandra Birchmore, a vulnerable young woman from Canton, Massachusetts, was groomed and sexually exploited by police officer Matthew Farwell starting when she was 14. Their abusive relationship lasted for years, overlapping with Farwell's marriage and …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: Feb. 1, 2021
View DetailsKaty experienced escalating domestic violence and controlling behavior from her husband Ingolf after he lost his job. Despite filing for divorce and obtaining a restraining order, Ingolf violated the order multiple times. On May 14, …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: May 14, 2020
View DetailsIngolf 'Harry' Tuerk, a 58-year-old urologic surgeon, strangled his 45-year-old wife Kathleen McLean during an argument in their Dover, Massachusetts mansion on May 14, 2020. Tuerk and McLean met on Bumble in November 2017 and …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: May 14, 2020
View DetailsOn May 8, 2018, 51-year-old Amy Fan was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head at the couple's farmhouse in Westfield, Massachusetts. Her husband, Brian Fan, a Westfield police detective, initially reported that …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Murder | Date: May 8, 2018
View DetailsCarol and Charles Stout were a married couple expecting a child. On October 23, 1989, after attending a childbirth class, they were shot at in their car by a man described as dark-skinned wearing a …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: Oct. 23, 1989
View DetailsIn October 1989, Carol Stewart, who was seven months pregnant, was shot in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood. Her husband, Chuck Stewart, told police that a Black man in a tracksuit had attacked them, prompting an …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Domestic Violence Homicide | Date: Oct. 19, 1989
View DetailsOn August 4, 1892, Andrew Jackson Borden and his wife Abby Durfee Gray Borden were brutally murdered by axe blows in their locked home in Fall River, Massachusetts. The main suspect was their daughter Lizzie …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Family Homicide | Date: Aug. 4, 1950
View DetailsSean, a 32-year-old man with a severe alcohol addiction causing blackouts and seizures, faces intervention from his wife Jules and family. His addiction has led to violent outbursts, job instability, and strained family relationships. Despite …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Non-Murder | Date: None
View DetailsIn August 2014, authorities in Blackstone, Massachusetts, discovered four living children in severe neglect and three deceased infants hidden in a home. Erika Murray, the mother, was convicted of child neglect and animal cruelty but …
Country: United States | Incident Type: Family Homicide | Date: None
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